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Unfollow All – Sometimes, You Just Want To Start Over

Are you getting tired of receiving a thousand DM spam on Twitter everyday? Are you following so many people that your iPhone Twitter app no longer works because it can’t download all the updates? Do you feel like starting over with a clean slate? Well now you can with my newest Twitter service, UnfollowAll.com.

Enter your Twitter information into Unfollow All, hit the start unfollowing button and it will nuke everyone you’re following on twitter. Once your following count hits zero, you can start a fresh list by following only the people you want to follow. Be absolutely sure you want to do this because once you hit the button, there’s no going back!

Unlike some other Twitter unfollow services, Unfollow All is completely free to use and I have no intention of every charging for it. The service is a good way to find out just how much influence you really have on Twitter. Many big Twitter accounts with a lot of followers got that way because they mass follow everyone with the hope of getting followed back. Unfollowing your entire list will mean only those that are truly interested in you will continue to follow you. The rest will unfollow you because you unfollow them.

If you only wish to unfollow people who are not following you, then you can use Twitter Follower.

I think that people are realising that being a twitter-slut is just not worth it. Quality has to prevail over quantity. Isn’t it odd how that good old saying applies to so many concepts, both old and new?

I’m going to use it right now, I currently don’t get much traffic from Twitter anyways. I was one of the idiots that just followed anyone thinking it was a numbers contest. Well it is but quality numbers is what’s really important 🙂

Wait before I go un-following all these folks in one fell swoop how will that affect my Sponsored Tweets status? Will it reflect negatively? Hmm don’t want to risk losing money just so I can follow fewer people.

I’ve gotta agree. I unfollowed a bunch of people that posted content that really wasn’t relevant to me, they did at the start but either I lost interest or they changed direction and honestly I’d never notice if they did, or didn’t unfollow.

1) Branding. Hard to change from twitter.com/johnchow to something else and people still be able to find him easy. Same goes for many others.
2) Because many of the followers might not know or notice that you changed names. If you already have a following, it is very hard to tell them all to move over.

It’s expected to lose the same amount of follower with the number of twitter user you follow, as I believe that many twitter user use the automated unfollow tool. But it’s good for you to just follow people you want. 🙂

It depends on the purpose of using Facebook, most of my friends use FB to connect with others, the most important is..playing FB games..that’s what my friends do. I used FB to connect with others only.

If your application can’t handle a large number of Twitter users, then follow the RSS feeds of selected users with an RSS reader application. There is no need to unfollow everyone if one application has problems doing it.

I’ve never heard any services like this, perhaps I don’t know it at all. I have been following about 1200 twitter user right now, if I unfollow all of them I believe that most of them will unfollow me as well. lol!

Hm, I like my own system better, first I set my account to private / protected, that gets rid of 99% of the DM and @spam. Then I block / unfollow the spammers that are amongst my followers and weed the ones out whose tweets I am not interested in and sort the others in the new twitter lists. A bit more work and far more effective, imho, SY

I think it’s mostly for people who fell into the “twitter follower frenzy.” After you’ve followed 30,000 people and you realize that you don’t care about more than about 5 of them, you might want to unfollow them and just not be able to.

For accounts only following a couple of hundred people, this seems a little overkill.

I’m still fond of unfollowing people who don’t follow me. I have a list I always refollow after I’ve wiped my slate clean of people who aren’t following me.

The big risk with this is losing followers who automatically unfollow people who don’t follow them.. They might not even notice that they unfollowed you via automation (and start to wonder why you quit tweeting).

The mass unfollow John did hit is following for about 2 months.. he’s already basically back to where he was when 10,000 people unfollowed him.

great info thanks man. it gets so annoying after a while, all of those crazy tweets you get. good tool. but the problem is do the presses can begin again , but then this at least gives you a fresh start and a while to be ok.

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